Daniel Lyons, the Forbes editor who writes the “Secret Diary of Steve Jobs” blog, spoke Tuesday afternoon at Microsoft — the Borg campus, as Fake Steve Jobs would say — as part of his tour for his new book, “Options.” He sat down with me afterward to talk about his blog, Apple, Microsoft and a variety of related topics. Here’s a video of our conversation.
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Apple announced this morning that the next version of Mac OS X, Leopard, will go on sale Oct. 26. The news release features a thinly veiled joke about Microsoft’s many Windows Vista versions, quoting Apple CEO Steve Jobs as saying that “everyone gets the ‘Ultimate’ version” of the new Apple operating system, for $129. Jobs made a similar joke on stage at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in June.
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Microsoft’s decision last week to postpone the end of Windows XP sales has generated lots of analysis about the implications for Windows Vista. What does it say that Windows XP is still in such high demand?
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Today’s European court ruling against Microsoft also will have an “extraordinary impact” on the industry, by affirming broad powers for the European Commission to regulate companies, says Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel. That was one of the comments he made during a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, available via this page.
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Apart from new iPods and new wireless song-downloading capabilities, the big surprise from Apple today was the $200 decrease in the price of the 8GB iPhone, to $399. While prospective iPhone buyers are no doubt happy about the lower barrier to entry, and unit sales of the iPhone are likely to benefit, it probably won’t sit well with people who paid the higher price. The iPhone launched June 29, just a little over two months ago.
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There’s lots of attention being paid to Apple’s new iMac, but the company today also unveiled a new spreadsheet program, dubbed “Numbers,” to complement the Pages word-processing software and Keynote presentation program in the iWork suite. Apple has demonstration videos on this page, for more details.
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Like it or not, the New York Times has uncovered the identity of Fake Steve Jobs, the anonymous blogger who captured the attention of the technology world with his irreverent and often hilarious posts in the voice of the Apple chief executive.
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